Justin Baldoni has fired again at Blake Vigorous.
In scathing trend, we should always emphasize.
As you’ve very possible examine by now, Vigorous has threatened to sue her It Ends With Us co-star for sexual harassment… alleging in an explosive authorized submission that Baldoni created a hostile work atmosphere on the set of the aforementioned film.
She additionally claims that Baldoni and his public relations workforce took half in a marketing campaign to smear her fame.
Particularly, the paperwork in query state that Baldoni brought on “severe emotional distress” to Vigorous on account of his conduct… included “showing nude videos or images of women to Blake,” together with dialogue of Baldoni’s previous “pornography addiction” or “sexual conquests.”
Fairly severe stuff, proper?
In accordance with Baldoni’s lawyer, nevertheless, additionally fairly false stuff.
In a press release launched on January 7, lawyer Bryan Freedman stated the next:
“It is painfully ironic that Blake Lively is accusing Justin Baldoni of weaponizing the media when,” he asserts, “her own team orchestrated this vicious attack by sending The New York Times grossly edited documents prior to even filing the complaint.”
Certainly, Vigorous despatched alleged textual content messages from Baldoni to this publication as a part of its story final month that documented the supposed harassment.
“We are releasing all of the evidence which will show a pattern of bullying and threats to take over the movie,” Freedman added on Tuesday, alleging:
“None of this will come as a surprise because consistent with her past behavior Blake Lively used other people to communicate those threats and bully her way to get whatever she wanted. We have all the receipts and more.”
Vigorous and Baldoni starred reverse one another in It Ends With Us.
An enormous display screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s wildly fashionable e book, the film has earned $242 million throughout the globe and was thought-about a success on the field workplace final 12 months.
However all success has now been overshadowed by the allegations forwards and backwards between its pair of leads, as stress turned evident nearly from the star of the movie’s PR marketing campaign.
It didn’t take lengthy for followers to note, for instance, that Baldoni and Vigorous didn’t sit for any joint interviews or pose for any pink carpet photographs collectively.
Only a day in the past, Vigorous’s authorized workforce instructed Individuals Journal that her “serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation,” first lodged in a California criticism on December 20, 2024, are “backed by concrete facts.”
“This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation,” her legal professionals’ assertion learn.
“As alleged in Ms. Vigorous’s criticism, and as we’ll show in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in illegal, retaliatory astroturfing in opposition to Ms. Vigorous for merely attempting to guard herself and others on a movie set.
“And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms. Lively since her filing.”
The actress’s preliminary criticism included accusations that Baldoni and one other producer entered her trailer “uninvited” whereas she was undressed or “vulnerable.”
It additionally claimed Baldoni “suddenly” pressured her to “simulate full nudity” in a start scene and “improvised physical intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed or discussed with Ms. Lively, with no intimacy coordinator involved.”
On December 31, Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit in opposition to The New York Instances over the newspaper’s December 21 article about Vigorous’s criticism, alleging it was the actress “who engaged in a calculated smear campaign.”
We actually do not know the place that is going, besides to say:
We doubt there will likely be an It Ends With Us sequel.
